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Am I missing something or just completely missing the point?
For example, if we use base 4 you have four integers: 0, 1, 2 and 3.
If you count from 0 up to 3, the next number is 10. Then 11, 12, 13, 20, 21. Right? With the nomenclature that we use, that would be base 10. If we defined the bases by the highest digit in the radix (?) rather than the number of digits, the system we commonly use would be “base 9” and base 4 would be “base 3.”
I feel like I’m not understanding something inherent in the way we think about numbers. Apologies if this is a low quality post. I saw that comic and now I’m curious.
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